Packing pad



Juy 6, 1937. A. u. cLAGHcRN PAckING PAD Filed June 14, 1934 30 paper.

Patented July 6, 1937 f UNITED STATES aosasss PAcxnvG PAD Arthur U. magnum, nigmana rark`,`ni., sigmto Container Corporation of America, Chicago,

a corporation of Delaware a i Application .nmtl 14,1984, serial no. '180,587 4 1 mm. (ci.V 154-541 The present invention relates to excelsior pads and more particulay -to pads for use in connection with wrapping furniture and the like to protect same during shipment.

5 Among the objects of the invention are to provide an improved pad or cushion of the class described having a maximum amount of fiexibility whereby to render the pad readily adaptable to the packing of furniture of odd and irregular shapes and sizes' to provide a pad containing excelsior formed of narrow strips of news stock paper; and to provide a secure and effective end sealing construction;

To these and other ends the invention resides in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as will be hereinafter more fully described, the novel features being pointed out in* the claim at the end of the speciflcation. i

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present invention; i

Fig. 2 is a view of the pad in cross section taken on line 2-2 of Fig.\1; and o Fig. 3 is a sectional view taken online 3+3 of Fig. 1.

The pad of the present invention, as disclosed, preferably comprises an outer wrapper or envelope 5 formed of a sheet of .tough, ilexible and readily yieldabie sheet material such as kraft The side edges of the sheet are brought together in overlapping relation on one face of the pad, as indicated at 6, and secured by means of adhesive.

The interior of the pad consists of a layer 1 of 35 paper excelsior preferably formed of paper of the Character' of news stock. Such paper excelsior may be convenientiy formed by cutting or tearing over-issue newspapers into long, narrow strips and separating same to produce an interlaced Fig. 1 is a perspective view of the pad of the`V and matted condition so as to obtain a' ller of substantialiy uniform texture and resiliency.

While the paper excelsior employed may be formed in various specific ways the utilization of paper excelsior having frayed' or torn edg'es .pro-

duced by the method disclo'sed in Antonsen Patent No. 1,731,967 makes it possible to provide a pad having somewhat more resiliency than isthe case with paper excelsioi'lmade up of strips withv cleanly cut edges. V `A suflicient amount of pape--xcelsior is preferably employed so as to snuglyfill the wrapper 5 to thereby obtain the maximum amount of pro-- uftection from the :pad for packing purposes.

The pad stock preferably formed in a continuous strip `which is Vcut into Sections to form changes may be made in the construction with-.

cout departing from the spirit of the invention,

and it is therefore desired that the present em-` bodiment be considered in all respects as iillustrative and not restrictive, reference being had pads .of desired'len'gths. -After the sections are` w to the appended ciaim rather than to the foregoing description to indicate the scope of'the invention.`

I claim: i

`A packing cushion comprising an envelope of w readily yieldable paper which entirely surrounds and completely encloses a filler, said flller consisting of elongated narrowvstripsiof shreddedV newspapers occupying the interior of the envelope and contacting at all portions of the inner surt face of the latter.

AR'I'I-IUR ILCLAGHORN. 

